Except the user had actually more power to create a positive experience with heterogeneous content in the centralized Reddit than here.
If you don't like the Reddit change you're free yo go.. if you don't like this you're free to go.
Yeah. I get it. It's just so limiting. It's not sold as "the forum where God like admins get to say exactly how things go an malleate at their willing". Even forums had people do their own stuff without breaking or mass banning every 5 minutes.
Your last point on "this is no different to reddit" is amazing. Yes. It's different. Right now it's worse. Less people who contributeless and destroy the shape and userbase of the network everytime they don't fully get their way.
It's really looking worse. In subs, mods with power trips could be easily replaced. Here you need an account per instance and the subs get fractured.
I thought it was just beehaw but holy hell the entitled attitude to not have to listen to any type of dissent ever. Don't worry, you won't be exposed to too many users. You'll get your wish.
Except I'm not American but I'm responding to a post about TD which triggers too many people by simply existing apparently. I wouldn't have even known if this post didn't say it.
And I don't agree with your take. I think the whole left right dichotomies are usually quite bs and people want to bundle stuff like a cellphone plan and most people just go along with no capacity to think for themselves.
And the same goes for anything else. You don't like r/politics being a bastion for US democrat biased ans bullshit propaganda? Block it. You don't want to see republicans talking about being republican (the horror), block it.
And don't pretend we all need to agree on everything and be as shittily outraged with the next US centric Google manipulated narrative.
Everyone i don't like is a Nazi/tankie/label. The internet is so predictable and boring around this.
Doesn't help when tech has sided with one US political party and we have to pretend that people need to fight amongst each other on identity bullshit issues instead of the political and corporate class doing whatever they want with their power imbalance
But hey, blue Vs red, this Vs that. Cry victim and bully...
We need users to curate their own content instead of demanding circlejerks of identical ideology and inconsistent rules.
Yes. I also can develop my own social website. Both are efforts that are not worth it to undertake to just participate in this environment, which, will make the default barrier of entry a ridiculous one (or an authortiarian minded one).
No. It's not. When the power is on decentralized Ids that the instance doesn't have so much power over, then it will be more interesting. As it stands, it offers actually less than Reddit, which is incredible to me (I'm super onboard with descentralization and user power but this is not user power).